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  • @coltdeedede
    @coltdeedede 2 года назад +698

    Potential insight on the Elegy of Emptiness / Young Link's distorted replica: apparently the developers realized the implications of the ending of Ocarina of Time (Link as a man being sent back in time into the body of a child) and wanted Young Link to look like a child but have expressions of an adult. I wouldn't be surprised if the replica of Young Link looks so twisted because it represents the discomfort of Adult Link being trapped in the body of a child and the horrors he has been through thus far between the two games. (Also fully aware it could just be a funny expression they liked)

    • @thebaseandtriflingcreature174
      @thebaseandtriflingcreature174 Год назад +71

      Link: 🎼🎵🎶🎵
      The wood-carved statue that appears behind him: 😬

    • @just_a_tepig3611
      @just_a_tepig3611 Год назад +22

      But link was in slumber for that 7year time, so not like he has a properly developed mind.

    • @ncapone87
      @ncapone87 11 месяцев назад +14

      @@just_a_tepig3611 I think it would be pointless for the sword to have him slumber for 7 years and develop only his body and not his mind.

    • @just_a_tepig3611
      @just_a_tepig3611 11 месяцев назад +7

      @@ncapone87 physically maybe, but in terms of experience, hed be the same

    • @ncapone87
      @ncapone87 11 месяцев назад +9

      @@just_a_tepig3611 I like to think Rauru had him do combat training in the spirt realm while his physical body slept. I don't think it would do much good for a 10 year old to fight Ganondorf. That's the whole reason he had to slumber to begin with.

  • @PixelXI
    @PixelXI 2 года назад +1068

    I think that the re-dead’s are actually grieving, as when they lean down, their heads are still a good distance from the corpses, and they slightly shudder as if crying.

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 2 года назад +98

      Yeah, but that shuddering could also be interpreted as chewing. It's really hard to tell.
      But eating fallen comrades doesn't have to be a morbid act. I'm currently reading the Realm of the Elderlings cycle by Robin Hobb. There dragons do eat their fallen kin in order to preserve the memories of the individual. It's even unbearable for them not to do so, because that would mean that lower creatures and vermin would feast on the body of a dragon. And that mustn't be allowed.
      So maybe it's both. Maybe they're eating their fallen comrades _because_ they moan their passing.

    • @mikeysrose
      @mikeysrose 2 года назад +97

      @@lonestarr1490 The Wari, a cannibal tribe living in the Amazon jungle and "discovered" in the 1950s, consumed the dead bodies of their neighbors and friends as a necessary and compassionate act, because "it is better to be inside a warm friend than in the cold earth," and because it keeps the dead people within the tribe instead of surrendering them to wild animals and bugs. When European missionaries arrived in the area, they forced the islanders to bury their dead instead of eating them, cannibalism being forbidden by Christianity. The natives were horrified by the concept, but since the missionaries also killed off most of them with disease, they didn't have the power to protest the cultural changes being forced on them.

    • @btbaw3630
      @btbaw3630 2 года назад +27

      @@mikeysrose🎶 you've got a friend in me 🎶

    • @grandsome1
      @grandsome1 2 года назад +29

      @@mikeysrose It's kinda funny that cannibalism is forbidden in Christianity but we give a pass at eating, following Catholic doctrine, the litteral body of Christ. (Yes, the Catholic priest really turns the wine and bread into divine flesh, says the doctrine)

    • @roachdoggjr.9062
      @roachdoggjr.9062 2 года назад +3

      @@bullymaguire9987 it's still technically cannibalism tho

  • @andrewk9267
    @andrewk9267 2 года назад +1275

    Man, is there ever a bottom to the well of Zelda mysteries? Just when you think you've heard it all, there's just a ton more

    • @1012Games
      @1012Games 2 года назад +48

      I see what you did there

    • @andrewk9267
      @andrewk9267 2 года назад +15

      @@1012Games 👀

    • @a-posetexturelessjoker1539
      @a-posetexturelessjoker1539 2 года назад +19

      For every one mystery reviewed, 50 more are thought up.

    • @mathewmeek8263
      @mathewmeek8263 2 года назад +15

      This is all really really old stuff every RUclipsr under the sun has made a video with these. I’m about done here it’s been months since I’ve seen anything new.

    • @4sight611
      @4sight611 2 года назад +5

      @@mathewmeek8263 thanks for the laugh

  • @chrispork1443
    @chrispork1443 2 года назад +139

    Perhaps the creepy statue represents Link’s hidden troubles and regrets that he has buried deep in his soul after what happened in Ocarina of Time.

  • @georgevincent1552
    @georgevincent1552 2 года назад +465

    I love how much depth there is within each Zelda game. There was no need for Nintendo to include them, but they still did, just to make the games that much more amazing!

    • @Tazerboy_10
      @Tazerboy_10 2 года назад +10

      Yup, it's a legendary thing...

    • @ChaddingAroundYT
      @ChaddingAroundYT 2 года назад +5

      same w kirby

    • @UnifiedEntity
      @UnifiedEntity 2 года назад +8

      It helps that this was done in the earliest ages of gaming....where more effort was put into lore and small Easter egg details. If these games came out now, I couldn't say there would be this much detail consistently.

  • @TRquiet
    @TRquiet 2 года назад +209

    The Elegy of Emptiness creates a soldier for a skeleton king. The dead spirits fit in, but very-alive Link does not. He does his best to fit in, looking with dead eyes and showing a bit of skeleton with his teeth.

    • @Antoine893
      @Antoine893 2 года назад +10

      Very fun theory!

    • @kaninekodiak
      @kaninekodiak Год назад +14

      that actually makes a surprising amount of sense, and while still creepy, its also kind of cute and a very clever, subtle little piece of character building, if true.

    • @myarmsrgone
      @myarmsrgone Год назад +9

      He's trying his best

  • @gregoriocruz4530
    @gregoriocruz4530 2 года назад +313

    Maybe the way the Link statue looks is because it's a reflection of Miyamoto. He did use his adventures as a kid for inspiration for the original Zelda. That's the only reason I could think of it looking like him.

    • @sirhenrymorgan1187
      @sirhenrymorgan1187 2 года назад +48

      Yes, Elegy of Emptiness Link is meant to be a caricature of Miyamoto.

    • @Tazerboy_10
      @Tazerboy_10 2 года назад +8

      🤔
      *Reflection

    • @gregoriocruz4530
      @gregoriocruz4530 2 года назад +6

      @@Tazerboy_10 haha, yeah. I had a brain fart.

    • @kaiseremotion854
      @kaiseremotion854 2 года назад +23

      I was thinking it shows links internal feelings...he puts on a brave face, fighting all threats with incredible resolve...but inside he's still scared, the song creates a statue resembling the spirit/internal emotion...link is terrified by each and every enemy, but knows he's the only one who can strike these beasts down

    • @stormcutter59
      @stormcutter59 2 года назад +16

      Considering Link is kind of the stand in for Miyamotos younger self when he would explore, that's very deep. Ever since I heard that story I always got an inclining feeling that Link's character had a bit of Miyamoto's soul in him. So in a sense when Link used the Elegy of Emptiness to show a shell of his "soul", it makes perfect sense as to why he resembles the man himself. It's a pretty cool subtle connection that I'm sure the developers were trying to make when they created the game. Details like this are why I will always consider Nintendo the top dog when it comes to making games. Nobody has them beat as far as I'm concerned, their standard of quality is on a whole other level from most

  • @TheReviewGhost
    @TheReviewGhost 2 года назад +359

    I've seen a vid floating around that the Blights were formed around the champion's dead bodies and actually hearing the "their attacks mirror the champion they killed" I can see why people might think that BUT an idea hit me: What if the Blights targeted/corrupted the auto-pilot?
    The Shiekah knew they needed to make the Divine Beasts, they knew they needed to make the Shines for Age of the Wild Link, why wouldn't they know future Hyrule would need help figuring out their tech? So they made auto-pilots; Robots much like the ones in Skyward Sword that may have acted as like a bridge for the champions to their respective beasts. If we take the theory that the Divine Beasts require life force to control, having something much like yourself to 'bond' to and ease into your role with might help. The pilot pushes their will onto the Auto-Pilots and the auto-pilots actually give the Beast its commands.
    So when Ganon sent Malice to each Beast the Auto-Pilots got corrupted but couldn't take full control without the true pilots life force. So they waited for the champions to come, killed them, and trapped their spirits in the control terminal so the autopilots were the only things giving orders. And when Link defeats the Blights, the auto-pilot robot is destroyed but the champion's spirits are so ingrained into the beasts system, they no longer need the extra bridge between soul and machine.

    • @supernathanjr
      @supernathanjr 2 года назад +12

      What a strong thought

    • @ShiroKurose
      @ShiroKurose 2 года назад +20

      I saw that too. And I find it really interesting that maybe the blights did take control over the bodys of the champions. I mean there is a little detail that maybe proves this theorie. If you look at the Ganon from the botw 2 trailer he clearly doesn't have a beard. Calamity Ganon does and we know a person who has a pretty beard and who died as well and was maybe in the throne room at the time. Whos spirit just like the 4 champions is still in hyrule.. Really gets you thinking doesn't it. That the malice took over the King.

    • @torashiki5646
      @torashiki5646 2 года назад +16

      @@ShiroKurose Canonically they didnt, the Champions fought the Blights and they already looked like that with the same weaponry, and Calamity Ganon itself is meant to resemble an undead Ganondorf.
      What is more likely is that the Blights were formed out of parts of the Divine Beasts once they landed in them, and they resemble the Champions because they are, in the end, Champions of their own race, races who have and had very traditional fighting styles, each one linked with an specific Divine Beast. It makes sense if each Divine Beast had weaponry for a champion of their respective race in them, or are weaponry part of the Divine beast itself.

    • @ShiroKurose
      @ShiroKurose 2 года назад +5

      @@torashiki5646 I know that but really Did they? I only saw the champions fight the blights and how they looked like in age of calamity. In botw I never saw them actually and i don't remember ever reading or seeing how they looked like. So even if it is canon that they indeed looked like that the point of my post was the beard thing with calamity ganon and the King.. it is just a theory of mine i wanted to share. :) because it is sus that Ganon in the botw 2 Trailer doesn't have one. And he has hair so he didn't lose it over the years i guess xD

    • @chasethemaster3440
      @chasethemaster3440 2 года назад +3

      Good idea

  • @toonlinkunknown7667
    @toonlinkunknown7667 Год назад +31

    Another thing from BotW, by the Hebra stable, there's an old man who gives Link directions. When you ask him about the North, he tells of the labyrinth and how a friend of his decided to venture through when they were kids. The old man states that he never saw his friend again. In the labyrinth, you can find a lone luminous stone on the ground in one of the dead ends. This supports the theory that dead souls are in, or are part of the luminous stones in Hyrule.

  • @randomtheorist251
    @randomtheorist251 2 года назад +448

    Idea: The Blights are security mechanisms for the Divine Beasts, programmed to activate if the Beasts were boarded. This would explain why no extra security mechanisms activated, such as turrets. After all, why would they recognise one of their own as a threat?

    • @poken9756
      @poken9756 2 года назад +9

      I had the same idea!

    • @psykat777
      @psykat777 2 года назад +21

      Yeah, but they look very similar to calamity ganon, and they aren't even like corrupted sheikah tech like the guardians, no, they are also part malice like calamity ganon.

    • @BenteinBjerke
      @BenteinBjerke 2 года назад +31

      The Blights are shards of Calamity Ganon which captured the Divine Beasts 100 years prior, this is told by the King at the beginning of the game.

    • @randomtheorist251
      @randomtheorist251 2 года назад +32

      @PsyKat777
      They are very clearly corrupted Sheikah tech. You can tell this just by looking at them.
      @Afvaldr
      I'm not denying that. What I'm saying is that Ganon sent those shards to take out the Champions, and they possessed the security guardians because they were the most powerful things on the Divine Beasts.

    • @jwatrous4473
      @jwatrous4473 2 года назад +6

      While I think this is a cool idea, there is an issue; only the champions can enter the divine beasts. That's why they were such a pain to deal with for their respective races.

  • @jamesbruch1808
    @jamesbruch1808 2 года назад +113

    I love the way you describe the mysteries. You present the evidence slowly, and with each fact equally presenting a new theory, which keeps me fixed on the video till the end. The mystery is answered with mystery till the real solution is found, and I love when that’s the case.

    • @Zeltik
      @Zeltik  2 года назад +15

      Thanks mate! Really appreciate it, thank you for watching

  • @CZsWorld
    @CZsWorld 2 года назад +198

    I'm here for creepy shit in Zelda videos any week!

  • @marche800
    @marche800 2 года назад +268

    Link's Elegy of Emptiness form is supposedly based on Shigeru Miyamoto, which considering the original legend of zelda was based on Miyamoto's childhood adventures, it actually makes sense that the shell Link would produce would look like the person who's spirit his character is based on, Shigeru Miyamoto.

    • @artey6671
      @artey6671 2 года назад +46

      So Miyamoto is resembled by a creepy boy with blond hair? Maybe that's payback for the short development time.

    • @roaringthunder115
      @roaringthunder115 Год назад +3

      @@artey6671 lmao

    • @marche800
      @marche800 Год назад +18

      @GamerSapph's Speedpaint + Animations Well duh Miyamoto also doesn't typically where green tunics and a hats

    • @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger
      @Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Год назад +11

      I was thinking the shell is "The essence of the person playing the song minus their soul" - in the three transformations' cases you get pretty much mirror images of them in life because their souls were already taken alongside their bodies.
      In Link's case, you get an image of what he'd look like living without his soul - hollow eyes, blank stare, a mouth that just sort of hangs open like a zombie.

    • @santiagopomares6287
      @santiagopomares6287 Год назад +1

      Now that I think about it, the statue in n64 could be Miyamoto smiling, he shows his teeth a lot, but that's just a theory of course

  • @thebatmary5954
    @thebatmary5954 2 года назад +54

    Sometimes I wonder if the teams that work on other series at Nintendo occasionally look at the Zelda team and are just like, “…Are y’all… ok?” But then I remember how scary Car Kirby is.

  • @Moon-Vixen
    @Moon-Vixen 2 года назад +62

    the redeads are the creepiest to me, and I vaguely remember hearing that they were the remains of the people who lived in the areas they're found in who had been unable to escape. I don't know if it's official or just something the kids made up in that age, but the idea that they were once humans, who still retain that shred of humanity and community as they endlessly suffer as insane, animated corpses is deeply emotional to me.

    • @Majinhero
      @Majinhero 2 года назад +4

      The only official index we have of them is in melee, where they are not actual corpses but animated clay dolls.

    • @benredfield6643
      @benredfield6643 2 года назад +18

      The Redeads have always intrigued me because the way they're used in OoT, the developers were clearly implying that they were walking corpses, or something like that. They're in places where we we'd expect the dead to be, such as in the castle town after it's ruined, and in tombs in the graveyard. I think it was in the guide that there was a mention that their masks are wooden funeral masks, which relates to real world traditions of doing similar things. I definitely read that somewhere but I can't remember where.
      But then the entries for them in the Smash series seem to throw that out of the window. In the English descriptions for them it says that they are magic animated in humanoid shape. I thought this might just be a bit of classic Nintendo of America self-censoring so I checked the Japanese versions and they also say something similar. In the 3DS version, the description starts with these lines:
      ウォーキングデッド、つまりゾンビに似ているが、どうやら、元・人間ということではないらしい。たまたま人間の形に似ている土くれの怪物が、たまたま通りかかったリンクに襲いかかるのだ。
      My reading of this is: The walking dead, that is, they resemble zombies but apparently they weren't originally human. They seem to be human-shaped monsters made from the earth and they'll attack Link if he happens to pass by.
      Well, I think that before Smash they were implied to be the actual remains of Hylians and whoever else died there, based on their locations and "grieving" behaviour. Then when it came to explicitly stating what they are, for whatever reason, Nintendo backed down on it. Just my opinion, but hat's how I see it :)

    • @loki4807
      @loki4807 11 месяцев назад +2

      Redeads always creeped me out as I grew older however I realized they are just sad and confused souls unable to move on because of Gannon.

  • @MrBizznessMan
    @MrBizznessMan 2 года назад +56

    Something to note about the Blights.
    The 4 champions were also meant to be pilots for the Divine Beasts. But despite them having have perished, the Divine Beasts still Operate without them.
    Maybe each of the Blights were originally a Specialized Guardian or Shieka Automaton that would have acted as the main pilot before and after the 4 champions took over.
    We see that in Memories of Link Darunia is seemingly Controlling Rudania without any form of Helm or control panel. So to "control" the divine beast must take the Spiritual Power the same kind used for Shieka Tech. So i can be either the Blights that are connecting through Shieka tech or the Champions still controlling the beasts in their spiritual form.

  • @seantheimp
    @seantheimp 2 года назад +128

    I personally think that Elegy of Emptiness Link is actually the Terminian version of Link. We see a lot of "copies" that have strange relationships with their Hylian counterparts, but we never see a Link counterpart. What if he's somehow in a sort of limbo, dead, or otherwise cursed because of Link's arrival in this land, and the Elegy is copying that tortured soul, and not Link himself?

    • @JMScibra
      @JMScibra 2 года назад +23

      I always thought that Link's counterpart was the Fierce Deity. The seemingly "alive" features of Link's shell are likely because he isn't dead like the spirits whom the other shells represent.

    • @seantheimp
      @seantheimp 2 года назад +6

      @@JMScibra Possibly. As for FDL as Terminian Link, it's believable but I'm skeptical. It's an ancient warrior-god of some kind, closer to the concept of the Spirit of the Hero than Link himself.

    • @krishnamckay3247
      @krishnamckay3247 2 года назад +7

      Hmm this reminds me of how in Lorule we find counterparts to all the people in Hyrule, except for the sages & initially Link
      SPOILER ALERT: but then we eventually discover that Ravio is Link's counterpart. It'd be nice to return to Lorule in a main console game

    • @krishnamckay3247
      @krishnamckay3247 2 года назад +1

      @@JMScibra Yea I was thinking that the eyes arent blank for Link's shell because he's actually live. But that doesnt explain other differences in features...I found out the face for the shell is based off Miyamoto tho

    • @seantheimp
      @seantheimp 2 года назад

      @@krishnamckay3247 I know about the face being based off of Miyamoto, but that's the Doylist perspective. The big question here is the Watsonian.

  • @AngryAtlantean
    @AngryAtlantean Год назад +18

    The Elegy of Emptiness was said to have the ability to create "soldiers with no heart", which has less to with the soul and more to do with literally having no heart; Being an empty vessel who feels nothing at all.
    The reason is creates statues of Mikau, Darmani, and the Butler's Son is because the song itself captures the appearance of the user. Link's forms look like Link to us, but, everyone else in the world sees Mikau and Darmani as they existed.
    Of course, the song creates statues of them even while dead, which gives them the rather horrific look of emptiness with the white eyes to signify that they are copies of beings no longer alive. You're making a statue of a ghost, effectively.
    With that logic, we could take that to mean the Elegy statue of Link really is just a generic looking, heartless version of Link who has no emotion at all. He has eyes on the statue because Link is still alive, he's not dead.

  • @hFactorial
    @hFactorial 2 года назад +14

    The scariest part was when the yellow rupee was about to despawn

  • @wolfsonic
    @wolfsonic 2 года назад +25

    I don't think weapon size is too important in botw considering when you kill lynels you can wield their huge weapons but now they are your size. I would assume the even more advanced sheika weapons could work similarly.

  • @albericozapata4086
    @albericozapata4086 2 года назад +34

    Always taught that perhaps the skeletons at the tail cave were from real people that lost at sea, found their way into the island. Only perishing in the hands of the nightmares, serving as a warning to those who find themselves in the dungeon. My imagination runs too crazy on that game, lol.

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 2 года назад +7

      My favorite theory is that everything in Koholint is an image of something the Windfish saw somewhere else. The question is when and where.

  • @TinsYouTrimble
    @TinsYouTrimble 2 года назад +37

    I love Zelda mysteries. I've watched so much Zelda Lore online it's hard to find anything new. But I still love hearing about the stuff I have already learned about. The way you narrate always brings me in.
    Also,
    I want you to know I would gladly watch Elden Ring content from you! I'd love to see your take on FromSoft lore.

  • @troy6377
    @troy6377 2 года назад +22

    I mean it’s possible that the skeletons in Link’s Awakening were people that had learned of their true origin or that their reality was not what they seemed, and had been destroyed by the wind fish’s consciousness somehow.

    • @kaiseremotion854
      @kaiseremotion854 2 года назад +1

      or suicide

    • @marhawkman303
      @marhawkman303 2 года назад +5

      Nah, the root question is WHAT was the Dream? Koholint had no true physical substance. It was all just magic. But.. where did the information used to create it come from? One idea is that it is memories of the Windfish. IE people places and things the Windfish had seen in it's life. Thus all of them are... sort of real. They're images of real(in-universe) people places and things.... but mixed together out of context. Part of why it seems to make no sense is because we're seeing PIECES of things and not whole things. Many memories of many places are mixed together in a jumble that doesn't quite make a cohesive whole.
      For the skeletons.... the question then becomes, what is this a memory OF? Where was the original place that the dream copied?

    • @MerkhVision
      @MerkhVision 2 года назад +2

      @@marhawkman303 ooh this is a very good comment! The jumbled up nature of regurgitated memories perfectly exemplifies what dreams are actually like! And then you posed the great and eerie question about what that dungeon was a memory of! I guess the Windfish has seen some fucked up things!

  • @lilnemi
    @lilnemi 2 года назад +44

    Havent watched the full video yet but i love these creepy/mystery zelda videos so much

    • @sb6196
      @sb6196 2 года назад

      Same here.

    • @weshuiz1325
      @weshuiz1325 2 года назад +2

      Main reaaon i started following this
      I'm not a lore guy, but legend of zelda is a expetion

    • @sb6196
      @sb6196 2 года назад +2

      @@weshuiz1325 indeed Zelda lore is very interesting I can't get enough of it for some reason.

    • @weshuiz1325
      @weshuiz1325 2 года назад +1

      @@sb6196 yeah same here, dont understand it either, i never care for lore
      But here i am waiting for botw2

  • @HavocHounds1988
    @HavocHounds1988 2 года назад +9

    Love the shot of The Lich King from the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic. That cinematic gives me chills every time the music starts up. It's so good.

    • @Zyrdalf
      @Zyrdalf Год назад

      Chills

    • @ogge9296
      @ogge9296 Год назад

      Was kind of irrelevant though as the LK is not a lich. Could've chosen an image of Kel'thuzad or something instead.

    • @HavocHounds1988
      @HavocHounds1988 Год назад

      @@ogge9296 He's not a traditional Lich, but I think being called the Lich King, he is still technically one. Especially how Ner'zhul was originally, where he was a spirit of sorts bound to a suit of armor and a sword. After he merged with Arthas maybe not so much.

  • @verdantmistral442
    @verdantmistral442 2 года назад +10

    The Blights might have something to do with the Ancient Champions. They are deliberately vague on the races of the four champions and the tapestry looks different from present.
    Considering the similarities of the blights to the ancient armor... they might have been intend to be armor for the Champions.

  • @lasercraft32
    @lasercraft32 Месяц назад +2

    I like to think that the Blight Ganons used to be specialized Guardian Scouts, meant to act as either a training bot or a defense mechanism for the champions and their divine beasts.

  • @ausgamecollector
    @ausgamecollector 2 года назад +8

    Re: the Blights’ / tech, it’s safe to assume that the size and physiognomy of the Shiekah tech and weapons warped to suit each Blight’s body, the same way Calamity Ganon himself has oversized Shiekah tech arming his body.

  • @coinbongo1436
    @coinbongo1436 2 года назад +24

    Zeltik just always make my day better thanks so much!

  • @charlesdarwin9830
    @charlesdarwin9830 2 года назад +26

    The Elegy of Emptiness mystery is pretty easy to figure out. It basically is spelled out in the explanation "a soldier with no heart" and in the song's title, the Elegy of Emptiness. These are reflections of the souls of those who played the song, but with a twist: they are completely heartless.
    These are basically versions of Link, the Deku Butler's son, Darmani, and Mikau who have lost all positive emotions.

    • @reitairue2073
      @reitairue2073 2 года назад +1

      ? You didn't answer the mystery part. Why are the spirits summoned when wearing a mask so different from Link's statue. That was the mystery lmao.

    • @justcole1277
      @justcole1277 2 года назад +1

      @@reitairue2073 because theyre dead
      And link is still alive

    • @reitairue2073
      @reitairue2073 2 года назад +1

      @@justcole1277 im referring to his expression

  • @Sarukana
    @Sarukana 2 года назад +6

    I always figured the blights got their tech from something meant to GUARD the Champions so they could Pilot their divine beasts with peace of mind. It can't be easy to pilot something the size of a mountain and I feel like it would take a good amount of concentration. This might leave the champions vulnerable to attacks while piloting their beasts, thus leading ancient sheikah to installing defensive measures intended to protect them.

  • @violetlight1548
    @violetlight1548 2 года назад +14

    We know from the "fifth divine beast" dungeon that a Sheikah monk resided within it, yet we never see any monks in the other 4 Divine Beasts. Maybe the Blights corrupted the Beasts' hidden monks?

    • @Zyrdalf
      @Zyrdalf Год назад +1

      Sheikah monks wore battle mechs confirmed.

  • @starralina0224
    @starralina0224 2 года назад +19

    Thanks for the amazing Zelda theories as always! Keep up the AMAZING WORK Zeltik!!!!

  • @Diamond_Aura
    @Diamond_Aura 2 года назад +9

    The theory about the Champions and the Blights is interesting, I’ve seen like 3 different explanations from different people. I have one other thought to add: do you think the Blights actually NEED to resemble the Champions, in order to try to pilot the beasts?
    For example, would the Blights not be able to make the Divine Beasts do anything bad if they didn’t resemble the powers of the Champions? Perhaps it’s Ganon’s attempt at “hacking” some sort of biometric recognition the Divine Beasts respond to, that allows them to only be piloted by their Champions or ones similar enough to them. This could be why in Age of Calamity, the descendants (who have fractions of similar powers) are also able to assist with piloting, albeit not as well as their original pilots. The Divine Beasts may recognize only a certain type of figure as able to pilot them; and as such, the Blights had to get close enough, or else they couldn’t “hack” them and sow chaos even if they killed their Champions.

  • @Lifelight_
    @Lifelight_ 2 года назад +7

    Taking a deeper look into the Blights makes me think that while Ganon's plan worked and the champions were killed by them... he could've been a little bit more smarter and saved some time at least. Instead of sending them in the order he did, he could've done this:
    Send *Fireblight Ganon* to fight *Urbosa* who would've had a harder time with its ability as she's mostly a close-combat warrior.
    Send *Waterblight Ganon* to fight *Daruk* who would've had it badly as Gorons are accustomed to the earth and heat instad of water and cold.
    Send *Thunderblight Ganon* to fight *Revali* as he could've struck him with lightning and avoid his arrows faster.
    Send *Windblight Ganon* to fight *Mipha* as its wind attacks could disperse the water attacks and attack her from a distance.

    • @QuasarEE
      @QuasarEE 2 года назад +4

      Could suggest he didn't have a choice in the matter and that the blights were formed as such in-situ from what was available.

    • @bigchungus5843
      @bigchungus5843 11 месяцев назад

      You realize That thunder blight Gannon Stronger then Calamity Ganon

  • @oliviadouglas7352
    @oliviadouglas7352 3 месяца назад +1

    Zeltik, you forgot something about Thunderblight Ganon: He has a MAD hairdo!!😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @arcticfoxnikiforon1267
    @arcticfoxnikiforon1267 2 года назад +5

    Personally I love the creepy idea that the dead bodies of the strongest hero’s in breath of the wild that each Gannon in each Beast uses a bit of their bodies to become the being that it is. That way Link actually has to fight a part of his friends from long ago. So like the reason Link see them after the fight is that Gannon contained their souls and that’s how they were trapped. I guess that would mean that the champions were somewhat alive a bit inside Gannon and were suffering that whole time. A messed up idea but to me it makes sense in a way.

  • @Spooks_FGC
    @Spooks_FGC Год назад +3

    The replica link always reminded me of attack on titan. The dead pan look and smile are a mirror of the titans.

  • @frolux8165
    @frolux8165 2 года назад +2

    The elegy face of link looks like he works in costumer service

  • @HerrrLuna
    @HerrrLuna 2 года назад

    This was fantastic! I really hope you make this into a series! There is just SO much fitting into this cathegory!

  • @darkcloak100
    @darkcloak100 2 года назад +13

    I can finally say "I've never clicked so fast in my life."

  • @thechampion2430
    @thechampion2430 2 года назад +2

    It's ok Zeltik, Elden Ring's got us all distracted. You're good.

  • @kiwikenobi
    @kiwikenobi 2 года назад +4

    Maybe the Blights' weapons are so big because, in Hyrule, weapons magically resize themselves perfectly to their wielder, Sheikah technology or not. Just look at anything a Moblin wields compared to how big it is when Link wields the same thing. That's just how weapons work in Hyrule, apparently. Like how metal weapons attract lightning. That's not how electricity works in the real world. But it works that way in Hyrule. So, that might explain the apparent discrepancy in the size of the Blights' weapons. It's just a rule of physics unique to Hyrule.

  • @whitecloud1528
    @whitecloud1528 2 года назад +1

    I love the Zeltik RUclips channel. It brings a great script with new topics every video that leaves you wanting more every time you watch. And the community is great.

  • @kathrynjones2383
    @kathrynjones2383 3 месяца назад +1

    I think the redeads don't disappear immediately is because their curse makes it difficult for them to actually die, or perhaps they can't even die at all, instead lying on the ground in unending pain. The other redeads act in sympathy to them.

  • @arazardo2152
    @arazardo2152 2 года назад

    Such a good video Zeltik. Very nice work

  • @CoffeeBrainzz
    @CoffeeBrainzz 2 года назад +5

    Perhaps the Elogy of Emptyness summons the Link FROM Termina, that has already passed away. Every character seems to have a counterpart, even Darmani, just because we don’t see him in the real world doesn’t mean he doesn’t exist somewhere in the real Hyrule.
    So in that respect, people theorized ‘Hyrule’ Link being dead as the reason he is here in Terminus as well as the creepy statue, but I think it can be as simple as his counterpart is who is dead! 🤔⚰️⚔️

  • @cynicalthoughts4695
    @cynicalthoughts4695 2 года назад +4

    Thanks mate I was literally in the mood for creepy stuff today.

  • @eliasb22
    @eliasb22 2 года назад +3

    Love the liche observation of Gomess. I always thought its head resembled that of Igos du Ikana (or one of his contemporaries). The idea of a member of the Ikana kingdom becoming a corrupted shell of his former self, wielding a scythe bearing the skull of one of his own people, (possibly) doing the bidding of the Garo nation or (possibly) the bidding of the Ikana kingdom, albeit in a twisted manner, is very likely. There’s definitely a lost story in there somewhere.

  • @cbeaumont
    @cbeaumont 2 года назад +15

    The Elegy face looks like the manga style they use to make the faces on the titans in Attack on Titan, where Link looks more like the humans. I wonder if there is a name for these styles.

  • @StefawnVan
    @StefawnVan Год назад

    Love how you use the forest temple theme in your videos. I love it too.

  • @coffeecat2812
    @coffeecat2812 2 года назад +1

    *spits out coffee* That image wasn't made up for the Ben Drowned creepypasta?! Holy moly.

  • @IvrioBermen
    @IvrioBermen 3 месяца назад

    About Gomess: It resembles Ikana's King appearance, not just his features but his hairstyle and hierarchy, like his war spirit was separated from his soul, maybe controlling the lives he took away in the past and even more, being the influence for the king's actions. The green orb was just the accumulated life force stolen from the living and both channeled and protected by the bats/kisses as a physical embodiment.

  • @CutieMoli
    @CutieMoli 2 года назад +3

    it was a bad idea to watch this at night in the dark, I'm easily spooked

  • @Linodino266
    @Linodino266 2 года назад

    Love your videos so much!🤞🏻✨ thank you for making them!

  • @MiagolioMaxwell
    @MiagolioMaxwell 2 года назад +5

    I subscribe to the theory that ReDeads are related to the Sheikah people, either created through funerary practices or magic, or some combination of the two. The Sheikah are clearly a very spiritual tribe, yet wield dark magics rather than the light typically associated with the Goddesses and typically good people. With that being said, I think the ReDeads crouching down at the side of their fallen brethren are doing so to pray for the departed spirit(s) there, perhaps in reference to Shinto beliefs and practices.

  • @cynrid8209
    @cynrid8209 2 года назад +1

    Yay!! I thought we had covered them all by now but I LOVE this kind of stuff!

  • @mikeysrose
    @mikeysrose 2 года назад +10

    I remember a video a couple months back theorizing that Ganon is a lich, and my understanding of the vessel storing their life essence is that it's kept in a hidden, secret place where it can't be found and destroyed. Given the ease with which Link finds and destroys the green orb, it's unlikely that Gomess was a lich, or if he was, he wasn't very good at it.

  • @dartiri1154
    @dartiri1154 Год назад +1

    To that with the weapon in the devine beasts:
    I believe, since these robotic weapons have been made to fight the form of Ganon we saw in the game, but the Ganon from 10 000 years ago, i have a different perspective. The devine beasts were created to be controled by a pilot and have been used in the earlier ancient war 10 000 ago. This means there must have been four "champions" as well. And since that time was like the prime of sheikah tech, i think that these weapons the blights use were made for the four earlier champoins to use. Maybe they had different methods to use these weapons what maybe could explain the sizes of the tech weapons

  • @Gabiktf
    @Gabiktf 2 года назад

    nice to see you upload again

  • @noodledood12
    @noodledood12 2 года назад

    I absolutely love how much lore there is to explore in the Zelda universe. Great vid as always!

    • @Nini_Vieira
      @Nini_Vieira 10 месяцев назад +1

      For real, certainly the most confusing Nintendo franchise of all time, but one of the bests

  • @speinz9430
    @speinz9430 2 года назад +1

    I have no problem that you took a while to upload because you were checking out Eldon ring. The game looks great and I’m super excited for it. Hope you enjoy it!

  • @harryguidotti3815
    @harryguidotti3815 2 года назад +2

    It's always a good day when Zeltik starts talking.

  • @pipo9409
    @pipo9409 2 года назад +3

    Another day another time i want a new zelda game

  • @nicolegreene8631
    @nicolegreene8631 2 года назад +1

    Long time viewer, first time commenter. If no one had told you lately, you are amazing! The amount of research that goes into your videos is impressive. And you definitely have the voice of an audio book narrator. I could listen to you for hours. Actually, I have, lol. Keep up the great work.

  • @Hunter-er2rh
    @Hunter-er2rh 2 года назад +1

    So sad we will never get an explanation! It's so cool to see that even now we find new mysteries and easter eggs in the Zelda games! Hello from France btw, I love your content!

  • @vivantambi2169
    @vivantambi2169 9 месяцев назад

    The hairstyles of the blights also kind of match the hairstyles/head shapes
    of the champions

  • @Ba1M30
    @Ba1M30 Год назад +1

    The Blight Ganons are the ultimate example of “If you can’t beat ‘em, join em.”

  • @Spiketrooper
    @Spiketrooper 2 года назад +2

    Gotta love that this notification comes up right as I bought a switch with BotW as my first game

    • @diediedice
      @diediedice 2 года назад +1

      That's nice. Have fun playing botw! :D

    • @Spiketrooper
      @Spiketrooper 2 года назад +2

      @@diediedice thankyou! Always loved Zelda series but I never bought a switch to play it! Super stoked about it

  • @entririhunter
    @entririhunter Год назад +1

    Without watching the video I'm going to assume this is all about what Tingle does with his hands when no one is watching.

  • @Kurogane_Hikaru
    @Kurogane_Hikaru 2 года назад

    When the video starts with Majora's Mask lore, it'll be always dark and awesome, thanks Zeltik 👍

  • @HannahLovesCatsYT
    @HannahLovesCatsYT 2 года назад +2

    Ooh! This is interesting. I love your videos!

  • @lowinlofi1398
    @lowinlofi1398 2 года назад

    I love these new Weekend videos!!!

  • @joshuawilson7682
    @joshuawilson7682 2 года назад +4

    Maybe the blights were designed as a way for the champions to train. They were made to be stronger then the champions so that the champions could have a challenge while training. I’m not sure why they would be on the Devine Beasts though.

  • @owendarney2342
    @owendarney2342 Год назад +1

    For the elegy of emptiness, I think that the reason it makes a very uncanny version of link is because it’s maybe a early or the first version of link. I always thought it was weird that throughout tens of thousands of years there has always been a “Link” that looks similar and is pretty much the same, so maybe each of those “Links” have just been possessed or housing the soul/spirit of the original Hylian warrior/champion.. Link, and so maybe that’s why the elegy creates a link that’s not evil but also not the same as the link in majora’s mask

  • @Link-Link
    @Link-Link 2 года назад

    I love these type of videos please do more

  • @Cazador_de_sirenas
    @Cazador_de_sirenas Год назад +1

    For me, the biggest mystery in BotW are the gerudo. How can they stand and walk on sand with high heels? My sister already complains enough about how difficult, tiring and painful is to walk with them for hours on a stable floor, and these women happily prance around on sand? Yeah, right.
    Also, Urbosa. How the heck isn't she electrocuted whenever she snaps her lightning attack, considering all the metal jewelry she wears? Gold is a metal and metals are conductors of electricity, you know? Or even if the attack doesn't come from her but she's the one receiving it (as shown in the video), by logic she should be fried instantly O_O.

  • @daniellebrown7595
    @daniellebrown7595 2 года назад

    “They live out their lives oblivious to the truth about their reality”….. That sounds quite accurate for everyone on Gaia.

  • @lady_v_
    @lady_v_ 2 года назад

    I love the creepy Zelda lore!! Thank you for this! 💖💖💖

  • @Fluffkitscripts
    @Fluffkitscripts Год назад

    We see ganon with identical weapons to the blights. I’m inclined to guess they look the way they do because he used tech he had on hand, but still put some thought into it.
    Im assuming the tech involved was some kind of cryonis module for waterblight, fireblight’s explosive blast, a set of thrusters and top-class guardian beam setup for windblight, and some timeshift nonsense and electricity for thunderblight.

  • @nelson6424
    @nelson6424 2 года назад

    Love these types of videos

  • @reidotte5564
    @reidotte5564 2 года назад

    I don’t ring the bell for many channels. But Zeltik, with this video, you have earned my bell ringing.

  • @free187s
    @free187s 2 года назад +2

    The Blights are Sheikah constructs made to pilot the Divine Beasts in the event that no champions are found. Ganon corrupted these constructs and turned them on the champions right when they were going to pilot the Divine Beasts.

  • @natsumihayden5738
    @natsumihayden5738 9 месяцев назад

    I think the outer shell if link made by the elegy of emptiness is link's struggles I turmina and hyrule. In Turmina, Link might feel horrible because everything he uses the song on time, he has to live with the pain of doing everything again.

  • @masonite2356
    @masonite2356 Год назад

    Is it weird that I've played barely any Zelda games but i still love these videos? Lmao

  • @chaos4654
    @chaos4654 2 года назад

    Ya'know.
    It just occurred to me that the Elegy of Emptyness might just be a massive Photogenic joke everyone missed.
    Like, that incarnation of Link/The Hero has garbage luck in getting their picture taken

  • @bowenorcutt78
    @bowenorcutt78 10 месяцев назад

    It just occurred to me seeing Revali fly around like that, the Champions could potentially have survived if they had decided to retreat.

  • @jackroberts2704
    @jackroberts2704 2 года назад

    With how advanced the Sheikah tech of 10,000 years ago was, it makes you wonder how high tech Hyrule would be if they kept at it in the present.

  • @Tholdur_Rinku
    @Tholdur_Rinku 2 года назад +2

    I think the Link dolls (extra lives) you get in Zelda II may be the ''statues'' created by the Elegy of Emptiness

  • @ricardoenrik
    @ricardoenrik 2 года назад

    Dude you're living Zelda encyclopedia! Thank you so much

  • @vihuynhquang5204
    @vihuynhquang5204 11 месяцев назад

    Imagine seeing the statue of yourself, and the moment you turn your back from it, you heard a faint ‘crack’ from behind

  • @UndertakerU2ber
    @UndertakerU2ber Год назад

    I don’t know if there are any interviews or comments from the devs regarding the design choice of Link’s MM statue, but my impression was that they took a more clever approach when designing what a “soulless” Link look like.
    I imagine that they felt it’d be too simple to just model a corpse-like caricature of Link with pure white eyes, so they thought that the “soul” of Link is represented in the cartoonish artstyle of the character’s design. Once that cartoon artstyle is stripped away and replaced with a face that bears real-world Japanese features, Link’s appearance quickly starts to become dull and lifeless lacking any charm it once had. To add to this, the Link statue’s “smile” is one that shows both his upper and lower rows of teeth, which conveys the idea to the audience that the statue is feigning a feeling of happiness and really feels completely emotionless (or soulless) on the inside.

  • @wetfart9813
    @wetfart9813 2 года назад +1

    2:26 "who's this"
    *this is truly a mystery, it could be anyone* 🤷

  • @GodsRighthandman
    @GodsRighthandman Год назад

    Just hearing that song of unhealing gives me a chill up my spine

  • @JermaineATL
    @JermaineATL 2 года назад

    Keep up the awesome job man 🙂

  • @thetokutickler
    @thetokutickler 2 года назад +1

    Thank you Zeltik, for that thumbnail. I was trying to cut back on sleep.

  • @CharunShadow
    @CharunShadow 2 года назад

    Amazing video like always :)
    Have a nice week

  • @dusty_1624
    @dusty_1624 11 месяцев назад

    My theory on the Blight Ganons' weapons:
    The Divine Beast Champions of old used the same weapons that the Blight Ganons' used, and when they passed away, the weapons were hidden inside each champion's respective Divine Beast for the future Champions. Then, when the malice entered the Divine Beasts, the malice found the weapons and powered them up by sizing them up and using parts of them that weren't needed for them to attach to its body.

  • @General12th
    @General12th 2 года назад

    12:30 "This is a common characteristic of a lich..."
    Shows a picture of the Lich _King,_ who is definitely _not_ a lich.

  • @strumhaubitze42ausfg
    @strumhaubitze42ausfg Год назад

    Bro the jumpscare at 2:01 literally sent my soul to the shadow realm